CSX train R334-10 (Grand Rapids-Walbridge) with an ex-Louisville & Nashville C30-7 up front is eastbound approachinng the Chubb Road crossing in Salem, Michigan at around 3:30 pm. This photo location was one of last resort for eastbounds as I could get to it at very short notice from my house, about a minute away.. My preference is to have some kind of physical structure or natural feature to provide definition, and evidence, of a given location, But to catch a C30-7 leader Ill take the featurless mainline. He would have beat me to the hamlet of Salem had I tried to catch him there. The Red Wing blackbirds songs filled the air on this afternoon, heralding the coming of Spring..

Photo Date:

3/10/1994 Upload Date: 2/1/2016 3:26:39 PM

Location:

Salem, MI

Author:

Jeff Knorek

Categories:

Winter

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Title:

BNSF 8412

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CSX train Q507-22 (Toledo Stanley-Cincinnati) is hurrying southbound past the DP&L Hutchens power station at milepost BE 46.7. This is a pan shot with a camera phone; please excuse the light-bending result ha ha ha. 1410 hours Sunday 11/23/14.

CSX train Q559-24 (Lima-Cincinnati) is moving southward on the mainline, splitting the Southward Absolute Signals (NAS) Middle Vandalia at milepost BE 68 of the CSX Toledo subdivision. In the lead are brand new rebuilds from the Huntington, WV shops: GP38-3 CSX 2005 and CSXT 2004. These two new GP38-3s have been assigned to the Q558/559 runs for tersting purposes. It was cool to see them as I have a particular fondness to short-nose locomotives. I'd love to know how they rate in the testing. The two trailing units, both dead-in-tow, are rebuilt SD50-2s